UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2017. The telecommunications provider MegaFon’s subscribers based in Moscow, Volga Region, and Central Federal District will get compensations for the total connection failure on May 19, MegaFon Ural’s press service reports. ‘As for the Urals, both voice and mobile Internet connection services were available as usual, both incoming and outgoing calls and data transfer remained stable in 3G, 4G, and LTE-Advanced networks. These were the users in Moscow, Nizhniy Novgorod, Kazan, Ufa, and a number of other cites that had some trouble with MegaFon that day,’ the press

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 24, 2017. An e-auction was coordinated by Novosibirsk Region Government recently to select the company to provide the constituency with borrowed funds. The auction committee considered applications from four for-profit banks, SKB-Bank’s press service reports. Banks that offered the lowest interest rates on their loans were chosen as the winning bidders, Novosibirsk Region’s Finance Ministry reports. Based on the auction results, the constituency will sign three contracts with SKB-Bank. According to Novosibirsk Region’s Finance Ministry, the loans will be issued at the

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil held a family event at the company museum for several hundred visitors, both locals and tourists, the company press service reports. Visitors to the event could join a game quest, listen to a presentation of a children’s book called The Adventures of A Little Tank as well as to stories about the Soviet Pioneer movement, take part in games, make asphalt drawings and scribblings, and take a look at Ural Vagon Zavod’s armored vehicles. Also, the Red Banner Epoch Exhibition was opened at the museum on

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. Director-General of Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Omsktransmash Igor Lobov was recently granted the honorary title of Omsk Region’s Honored Industrial Worker, the company press service reports. Lobov was awarded in acknowledgement of his great contribution to the development of the Russian machine-building industry. Igor Lobov has moved on from a shift foreman at a chemical/metallurgical plant to a director-general of a defense enterprise in the thirty years of his career. He has been head of Omsktransmash for the last six years now, introducing new jobs,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. ChTPZ Group’s Chelyabinsk Tube Rolling Plant invested 244m RUR in upgrading its equipment for quality control of large-diameter pipes. This was part of the plant’s and its partner Transient's strategic cooperation program, the Group’s press service reports. For one, ten weld line and pipe end quality control units got upgraded (the units are meant to test pipes with the diameter ranging from 530mm to 1,220mm), and new ultrasound, X-ray, and magnetic particle test units were installed at the plant’s electric welding department. The non-destructive

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. The final rounds of a multi-sport children’s competition (Chelyabinsk’s Strongest Kid) was coordinated by Russian Copper Company in Chelyabinsk recently, the company press service reports. ‘The championship’s final stage took place at the track-and-field facility UralGUFK in Chelyabinsk on May 20, 2017. Forty-two young sportsmen and women competed for the title of the city’s strongest kid. They were selected from among over 5,000 local schoolchildren, who competed in the preliminary rounds beginning from October 2016. This season, Ivan Yakovlev, Danil

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 23, 2017. A series of fights that were part of Judo Grand Slam international competition were held in Yekaterinburg on May 19-21, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. The ore mining/metallurgical holding acted as the event’s official sponsor. ‘Judo Grand Slam series is one of the key IJF events that always gathers together the best sports players from Russia, Japan, France, Azerbaijan, Germany, Brazil, and other countries. I’m positive that Judo Grand Slam’s arrival in Yekaterinburg is a big thing for the local sports lovers. We are happy to

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. A new youth group chair was elected at Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s head plant in Nizhniy Tagil. Svetlana Aldushina, a metallurgical production engineer, got elected for the position, the company press service reports. The elections were part of Ural Vagon Zavod youth group’s conference and covered electing the new nine-people committee, the committee secretary, and a three-people audit committee as well. Svetlana Aldushina has worked at Ural Vagon Zavod since 2006 and been very active socially. She chairs the plant’s youth policy committee and is a member

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Rosset’s Federal Grid Company United Energy Systems completed the reconstruction jobs at a 220-kilowatt main connecting Sredneuralskaya Power Station to Yuzhnaya Substation, the company press service reports. The energy engineers at work replaced the stay bars at the main supports and did overall main checks to enhance the reliability of electric power supply for Yekaterinburg end users. The company plans to replace 290 stay bars at eighteen 220- to 500-kilowatt mains in the area this year. The 220-kilowatt Yuzhnaya-Sredneuralskaya main was put up in 1961

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Pipe Metallurgical Company (TMK) member enterprise TMK Chermet exceeded the target scrap ferrous metal supply figures for the first quarter of 2017 by 26% and delivered 494,000,000 kg of scrap metal onto the company’s plants, TMK press service reports. ‘The company keeps relying more heavily on its own scrap metal supplies: deliveries rose by 10.6% against the first quarter of 2016 and amounted to over 160,500,000 kg. A stable increase in the amount of scrap metal collected is now observable at TMK Chermet’s sites in Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk, Rostov,

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Ural Airlines are launching a new international flight from Moscow Region’s Zhukovsky Airport to Rome, the air carrier’s press service reports. You can fly to Italy’s capital from Zhukovsky Airport in Ramenskoye starting from July 7, 2017; the scheduled flight is to be operated every Friday. Special prices apply and start from €180 (one-way), €320 (round trip), and €565 (one-way, Business), all fees included. Ural Airlines keep introducing new flights operated from Zhukovsky Airport to Tel Aviv, Dushanbe, Bishkek, Osh, and Khujand on comfortable Airbus

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 22, 2017. Following Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev’s decree to this effect, more locals will get their expenses relating to switching their housing to natural gas supply subsidized by the constituency, the Governor’s Information Policy Department reports. The decision was taken on May 19, following a video conference with mayors of towns in the area; the conference call participants talked about the existing natural gas supply network and its prospective extension. Sverdlovsk Region Social Policy Ministry now has to complete all the documentation by

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation is planning to present four new, promising developments at the international Construction Vehicles & Technologies 2017 Exhibition at Moscow’s Crocus Expo on May 30-June 3, 2017, the company press service reports. Ural Vagon Zavod is featuring the produce of two of its member enterprises, Nizhniy Tagil-based head plant Ural Vagon Zavod and Chelyabinsk-based ChTZ-Uraltrac. ‘The head plant has its caterpillar-tracked and wheeled-tracked excavators to show potential customers. Both vehicles were designed by the corporation’s Ural

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. Once the spring weather has set in, Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation’s Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant (KULZ) resumed construction jobs in the boiling unit, the company press service reports. ‘The foundation for the boiler was laid by the builders last fall. The new ‘heart’ of the plant’s heating system will come to replace the obsolete, energy-consuming appliances,’ the press service says. According to KULZ Senior Energy Engineer Sergey Selischev, the use of the up-to-date technological equipment instead of the old units is expected to result in considerable

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works (NTMK) supplied over 10,000,000 kg of H-beams to the oil processing enterprise ZapSibNefteKhim in the first quarter of the year, EVRAZ Holding Ural’s Corporate Relations Center reports. Also, the customer Sibur received over 10 various types of H-beams from among 30Sh, 35Sh, 50Sh, 60Sh, 70Sh, and 40K range with strength grade S345. ‘Hot-rolled steel beams are an essential and reliable part of building frames. NTMK makes H-beams in the S255, S345, S355, S390, and S440 strength grade range in

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. EVRAZ Holding’s West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works (ZSMK) are hosting their second corporate round of the blue-collar job championship WorldSkills on May 22-26, EVRAZ Holding Siberia’s Corporate Relations Center reports. ‘The championship will bring together sixty-eight contestants from the holding’s eight member enterprises: West-Siberian Integrated Metallurgical Works, Nizhniy Tagil Integrated Metallurgical Works, Kachkanar Ore Mining & Processing Enterprise, Dneprovsky Metallurgical Plant, Raspadskaya Coal Company, Evrazruda, and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 19, 2017. 4,079 repair jobs amounting to 1.963bn RUR altogether were done in Sverdlovsk Region within the housing capital repair program as of May 15, 2017, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The renovations involved 460 repaired roofs, 443 upgraded electric power supply systems, 272 heating supply systems, 367 cold-water supply systems, 257 hot-water supply systems, 399 sewerage units, 166 basements, and 221 building facades. According to Sverdlovsk Region Capital Repairs Fund’s Director-General Stanislav Sukhanov, only 84% of all

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Acting Governor of Sverdlovsk Region Evgeny Kuivashev met with Ambassador Extraordinary & Plenipotentiary of Finland to Russia Mikko Hautala and a group of Finnish delegates to discuss a number of possible joint projects and localization of energy, agricultural, timber-processing, and pharmaceutical enterprises in the area, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. Sverdlovsk Region and Finland’s overall trade turnover amounted to $40m this year so far, with Finland remaining one of the constituency’s most reliable trade and

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. Sverdlovsk Region’s Transport & Communications Ministry carried a list of local motor roads that will get repaired this year, Governor of Sverdlovsk Region’s Information Policy Department reports. The ministry intends to give overhauls and smaller repair jobs to 112 km of roads and to bring all the pedestrian crossings next to schools and colleges in compliance with the new national standards. For one, repairs will involve Yekaterinburg Orbital Motorway and the following highway sections: Yekaterinburg-Rezh-Alapayevsk Rezh-Artemovsky-Kilachevskoye

UrBC, Yekaterinburg, May 18, 2017. A charity hockey championship coordinated by the Anton Shipulin Charity Foundation and Russian Copper Company will be held in Yekaterinburg this week. The company press service reports four different hockey teams will compete in the championship: KomAR comprises actors Marat Basharov and Denis Matrosov, actors Ivan Dubrovsky and Sergey Komarov known for their parts in Molodezhka, and singers/songwriters Sergey and Vladimir Kristovsky, founders of the band Uma2rman. Olymp, headed by biathlon player Anton Shipulin, has sports players Ivan Alypov and Alexander